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[la_vie_noire]

The one issue I’m not seeing as feminist bloggers ask these questions is: How then do we preserve women’s sports? I’m interested in practical answers. It seems like the wrong answer to desegregate or let those who have the biological traits we associate with men to compete, because what that would functionally mean is the end of women in sports. Women simply cannot compete at the highest levels with individuals whose bodies have masculine strength, height, and power.

The IAAF handled this badly, and they acted like Semenya cheated. They may have a too stringent line for what is “female”. But a line, where everyone is competing against everyone else, female athletes by and large would fall off the map. It would be a shame, for instance, to have people like the Williams sisters languish in obscurity because they simply can’t break into the top ranks of players if they’re forced to compete against men.

None of this discredits the critiques you’re offering. I’m simply interested in your practical response. How do we accommodate the problems you outline without desegregating and ending women’s sports?

Guess who was that? Amanda Marcotte. Now the representative of white, cis feminism everywhere.

Wonder yourself woman why you "aren't seeing" that.

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[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

I was going to write something but I scrolled down and the ignorance in the thread was too crazy making. Mama! And these are supposed to be feminists!

[la-vie-noire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, that's feministe for you. Even the OP was kinda... uhm. I feel for Orenstein, but it's kinda telling that they are using the experience of a woman born cis to feel empaty with Semenya. ("what would the difference be, say, between myself and a pre-op female-to-male transsexual?" Uhm)